Achieve Quote by Vartan Gregorian

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because…

— André Brink

“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on…

— Anne Osborn

A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives.

— Tamora Pierce

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary…

— Carolyn Wells

A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences.

— William Osler

“No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and…

— Anonymous

Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

“Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.”

— Matt Finch

“A personal library is an X-ray of the owner’s soul. It offers keys to a particular temperament, an intellectual disposition, a way of being…

— Jay Parini

When the function of libraries is put in terms of their contributions to the community, people see their centrality. The challenge to us is…

— Arthur Curley

The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution,…

— Robert Hughes